Rabbi Kliel Rose

Rabbi Y. Kliel Rose is the spiritual leader of Beth Shalom located in Edmonton, Alberta. Kliel was born in Jerusalem to a rabbinical family and grew up in Winnipeg, Canada. Kliel earned a BA in Judaic studies from Gratz College, in Philadelphia, after which he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). As a student, Kliel...
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Hannah Weilbacher

Hannah (she/her) comes to T’ruah having worked as an organizer and advocate in the field of Jewish social justice. Before T’ruah, Hannah served American Jewish World Service as Senior Program Officer for Jewish Advocacy and Engagement, where she worked with rabbis and cantors who are passionate about human rights. Hannah also worked at the Jewish...
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Hadar Harris

Hadar Harris

Hadar Harris is an award winning human rights attorney and institution builder whose work focuses on civic enfranchisement, gender equality, freedom of expression and association, protecting closing civil society space and domestic implementation of international norms. She spent fifteen years in academia, building centers and organizations impacting a range of issues. She has worked as...
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Torah 20/20

This year’s Torah cycle, 5780, will accompany us through a high-stakes year in American life. Between October 2019 and October 2020, Torah 20/20 will bring Jewish wisdom to the most urgent questions of democracy in America. Fifty-two Jewish leaders and thinkers–including rabbis, writers, political leaders, and artists–will explore democracy and questions of how to build a just...
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Atara Cohen

Atara Cohen is a student at Yeshivat Maharat, expecting to be ordained in 2020, who hopes to inspire her future congregants to connect Torah with social justice work. She graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Religion and a Certificate in Judaic Studies. Through her undergraduate studies, she focused on the impact of text on...
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Sarah Berman

Sarah Berman is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, expecting to graduate in 2020. She comes to rabbinical studies after a career in the arts. For more than a decade, Sarah researched the broad permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, specializing in provenance (the history of ownership...
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Nora Woods

Nora is a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, expecting to graduate in 2020. She received her B.A., as a religion major, from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Before rabbinical school, Nora was an Americorps member with City Year, managed a farm in Newtown, PA, was an Adamah Fellow at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center,...
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Amelia Lavranchuk

Amelia Lavranchuk is a cantorial student, working toward ordination and a Masters of Religious Education in 2020, at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Amelia grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Brandeis University in 2012 with a degree in music and education. After graduating, she taught elementary school in New...
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Max Antman

Max Antman is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, expecting to graduate in 2024. Originally from Evanston, IL, Max attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and minors in English and Jewish Culture and Society. Max’s academic path sparked an...
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Elizabeth Breit

Elizabeth Breit is a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary expecting to graduate in 2022. She holds a BA in Religious Studies from Yale College and a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Elizabeth has worked as a mediator in small claims court, chaplain, leader of adventure travel trips around the world, and teacher for...
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